And he went out from Pharaoh Without the city, as he had been wont to do: and entreated the Lord; prayed to him that he would remove the plague of the locusts from the land.
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God reversed the wind - a powerful west wind took the locusts and dumped them into the Red Sea. There wasn't a single locust left in the whole country of Egypt.
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But God made Pharaoh stubborn as ever. He still didn't release the Israelites. Strike Nine: Darkness
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